The Criterion Collection Complete

ÖSTLUND, Ruben (Sweden) Triangle of Sadness [2022] Spine #1178 Blu-ray Master of social discomfort Ruben Östlund trains his unsparing lens on the world of wealth, beauty, and privilege in this audacious, Palme d’Or–winning satire of our status-obsessed culture. A model-influencer couple (Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean) get a ticket to the luxe life when they’re invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish—but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down. Pushing each provocative set piece to its outré extreme, Östlund maps the shifting social hierarchies with the irreverence of a modern-day Luis Buñuel and the incisiveness of a cinematic anthropologist. 147 Minutes Color 5.1 Surround 2:35:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writer Ruben Östlund was 48 when he wrote and directed  Triangle of Sadness . The Film a Film Rating (0-60): 60 The Extras The Booklet Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by film critic...

McQUEEN, Steve (United Kingdom) Education [2020] Spine #1177e Blu-ray A Black boy’s journey through an ineffectual public school system reveals the racial inequities built into everyday British life. Young Kingsley Smith (Kenyah Sandy) is a spirited aspiring astronaut with a love of drawing whose life is turned upside down when he is thrust into a new school for the “educationally subnormal”—a harrowing experience that gradually awakens his mother (Sharlene Whyte) to the institutional mistreatment of the children of West Indian immigrants. Shot on Super 16 mm to evoke BBC television dramas from the 1970s, the final  Small Axe  film concludes the pentalogy with a hopeful vision of the power of Black-led collective action. 66 Minutes Color 5.1 Surround 1:60:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writers Screenplay by Alastair Siddons and Steve McQueen . McQueen was 51 when he directed  Education . Other McQueen films in the Collection: #504: Hunger (2008) #1177a: Mangrov...

McQUEEN, Steve (United Kingdom) Alex Wheatle [2020] Spine #1177d Blu-ray An intimate account of a decisive moment in British history unfolds via the true story of one man’s awakening Black consciousness. Raised in cold, oppressive children’s homes that have left him estranged from his West Indian roots, the eponymous orphan Alex Wheatle (Sheyi Cole) gradually finds his voice as an artist, activist, and writer on the streets of Brixton—a transformation that intersects with the 1981 uprising in which the neighborhood’s mainly Black youth erupt in protest against police violence. Interwoven with the vibrant reggae that inspired its subject’s journey,  Alex Wheatle  crackles with the heady political and cultural energy of a singular time and place. 68 Minutes Black and White/Color 5.1 Surround 2:00:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writers Screenplay by Alastair Siddons and Steve McQueen . McQueen was 51 when he directed  Alex Wheatle . Other McQueen films in the Coll...

McQUEEN, Steve (United Kingdom) Red, White and Blue [2020] Spine #1177c Blu-ray Both a hard-hitting indictment of structural injustice and a penetrating portrait of a complex man,  Red, White and Blue  boasts a passionate, multilayered performance from John Boyega as Leroy Logan, a Black research scientist whose decision to join the notoriously racist London police force, in hopes of reforming it from the inside, brings him into conflict with his family, community, and very sense of self. Based on a true story, this nuanced exploration of Margaret Thatcher–era racial tensions powerfully portrays the psychic struggle of a lone man going up against a system designed to crush him. 84 Minutes Color 5.1 Surround 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writers Screenplay by Courttia Newland and Steve McQueen . McQueen was 51 when he directed  Red, White and Blue . Other McQueen films in the Collection: #504: Hunger (2008) #1177a: Mangrove (2020) #1177b: Lovers Rock (2020) #11...

McQUEEN, Steve (United Kingdom) Lovers Rock [2020] Spine #1177b Blu-ray Suffused with the intoxicating sounds of reggae, dub, and lovers rock, the second installment in Steve McQueen’s  Small Axe  series unfolds over the course of one rapturous night into dawn in early-1980s West London, as a young woman (the luminous Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn) sneaks out to attend a house party. As the alternately languorous and ecstatic rhythms pulse from a homemade sound system, romance sparks on the dance floor, small human dramas play out, and, for a moment, this gathering is a safe haven from the outside world. Aided by the sensuous cinematography of Shabier Kirchner, McQueen captures an exhilarating expression of Black joy in a society often intent on stifling it. 73 Minutes Color 5.1 Surround 1:78:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writers Screenplay by Courttia Newland and Steve McQueen . McQueen was 51 when he directed  Lovers Rock . Other McQueen films in the Collection: #504...

McQUEEN, Steve (United Kingdom) Mangrove [2020] Spine #1177a Blu-ray Steve McQueen’s multistrand anthology of West Indian immigrant life in London opens in the late 1960s with this stirring ensemble film. In a Caribbean restaurant, a group of Black activists, intellectuals, and ordinary people converge and unite in struggle against incessant police harassment, leading to an explosive showdown on the streets and a courtroom drama that challenges the racist power structures of British society. Based on real events, this is a passionate vision of community as a form of resistance, performed by a dynamic cast (led by Shaun Parkes, Letitia Wright, and Malachi Kirby) and bolstered by McQueen’s eye for vivid sensory detail. 133 Minutes Black and White/Color 5.1 Surround 2:35:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writers Screenplay by Alastair Siddons and Steve McQueen . McQueen was 51 when he directed  Mangrove . Other McQueen films in the Collection: #504: Hunger (2008) #1177b: Lover...

McQUEEN, Steve (United Kingdom) Small Axe [2020] Spine #1177 Blu-ray With the five films that make up his  Small Axe  anthology ( Mangrove; Lovers Rock; Red, White and Blue; Alex Wheatle;  and   Education ), director Steve McQueen offers a richly evocative panorama of West Indian life in London from the 1960s through the ’80s—a time defined for the community by the terror of police violence, the empowering awakening of political consciousness, and the ecstatic escape of a vibrant reggae scene. Ranging in tone from the tenderly impressionistic to the devastatingly clear-eyed, these powerfully performed portraits of Black resistance, joy, creativity, and collective action—all sumptuously shot by Shabier Kirchner—form a revolutionary counterhistory of mid-twentieth-century Britain at a transformational moment. Criterion Release 2023 #1177a: Mangrove #1177b: Lovers Rock #1177c: Red, White and Blue #1177d: Alex Wheatle #1177e: Education By Director By Spine #